The discovery was officially penned into the scientific record on Tuesday with the publication of a paper on the species in the journal, PeerJ. Halichoeres sanchezi.
“It’s amazing that we can still find species that are new to science in a place where people are visiting pretty regularly — it just shows how big and complex the world is,” said UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Ben Frable, who was one of the scientists in the expedition. |
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